Family Fossil
November 2016
This project focused on the material called Plastiglomerate——the very first natural material that created by human. The natural sedimentary grains and organic debris are agglutinated by melted plastic created by the campfire burning, after the mixing, plastiglomerate will not vanish as rocks nor deposited as plastics.It has the potentiality to last forever. It is becoming a permanent marker in Earth’s geologic record, and the future fossil that records the period of time when humans began to leave significant and losing impact on the planet’s landscape and atmosphere.
We are deeply connected to the things that surround us, they augment our existence, and are entangle to our everyday lives. This practical project critically unpacks, discover, explore and play with these complex network of entanglement.
Based on the eternity factor of plastiglomerate, this project as a theoretical workshop would introduce plastiglomerate to the public as an everlasting material, and invite people to send me photo of their precious memory, then melt their photos into a stone with plastic to make a piece of plastiglomerate and give it back to people ironically as a souvenir. Though this workshop I created the sense of hundred years later these souvenir has lived long past their owner carrying their memories that no one remembered anymore.
The image showed my example of this workshop using my photo with my mom.
